Primi Divi

But first, let’s take a look at our previous winners. I suggest you look particularly closely at who won last year, as either last year’s results have been accidentally deleted, or someone (probably me) forgot to post them.

BEST OPERA (NEW PRODUCTION)
2006-07 - Agrippina (English National Opera)
2005-06 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Opera)

BEST OPERA (REVIVAL)
2006-07 - La boheme (ENO)
2005-06 - Xerxes (ENO)

BEST CONDUCTOR
2006-07 - Mark Elder - Stiffelio (ROH)
2005-06 – Bernard Haitink – Beethoven’s Ninth (London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican)

BEST DIRECTOR
2006-07 - David McVicar - Agrippina (ENO)
2005-06 – Chen Shi-Zheng – Orfeo (ENO)

BEST SET DESIGN
2006-07 - Mauricio Elloriaga - The Seraglio (English Touring Opera)
2005-06 – Fyodor Fydorovsky – Boris Godunov (Kirov Opera at the ROH)

BEST PRODUCTION OF LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
2006-07 (No Award)
2005-06 – Opera North

BEST SHORT OPERA
2006-07 (No Award)
2005-06 - Fast Forward Figaro (Drill Hall)

BEST MALE PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE
2006-07 - Jonathan Summers – Rigoletto Rigoletto (Opera North)
2005-06 – Simon Keenlyside – Billy Budd Billy Budd (ENO)

BEST FEMALE PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE2006-07 - Sarah Connolly – Agrippina Agrippina (English National Opera)
2005-06 – Joyce DiDonato – Dejanira Hercules (Les Arts Florissants at the Barbican)

BEST MALE PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
2006-07 - Gerald Finley – Golaud Pelléas et Mélisande (ROH)2005-06 – Gerald Finley – Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro (ROH)

BEST FEMALE PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
2006-07 - Lucy Crowe – Poppea Agrippina (ENO)
2005-06 – Anne Mason – Kostelnicka Jenufa (ETO)

BEST YOUNG MALE SINGER
2006-07 - Sion Goronwy – Osmin The Seraglio (ETO)2005-06 – Robert Gleadow – various roles (ROH)

BEST YOUNG FEMALE SINGER
2006-07 - Lee Bisset – Mimi La boheme (ENO)
2005-06 – Katie Van Kooten – Aminta Il re pastore (ROH)

BEST COMIC MALE
2006-07 - Thomas Allen - Don Alfonso Cosi fan tutte (ROH)2005-06 – Darren Jeffery – Bottom A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ROH)

BEST COMIC FEMALE
2006-07 - Jenna Lee James – Scaramouche We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre)
2005-06 – Elizabeth Atherton – Countess Le nozze di Figaro (Welsh National Opera)

BEST MALE UNDERSTUDY
2006-07 - Dwayne Jones – Alfredo La traviata (English National Opera)
2005-06 – Viktor Lutsyuk – Hermann The Queen of Spades (Opera Holland Park)

BEST FEMALE UNDERSTUDY
2006-07 - Caitlin Hulcup - Ariodante Ariodante (Les Talens Lyriques)
2005-06 – Miriam Murphy – Lady Macbeth Macbeth (ROH)

BEST MALE CHORUS MEMBER IN A SOLO ROLE
2006-07 - Nicholas Lester (Opera Holland Park Chorus) – Officer Il barbiere di Siviglia (Opera Holland Park)

BEST FEMALE CHORUS MEMBER IN A SOLO ROLE
2006-07 - Claire Mitcher (ENO Chorus) – Barbarina The Marriage of Figaro (English National Opera)

BEST CHORUS MEMBER IN A SOLO ROLE
2005-06 – Deborah Peake-Jones (ROH Chorus) – Marenka The Bartered Bride Sing Along

BEST CONCERT
2006-07 - Idomeneo (Chelsea Opera)
2005-06 – Love’s Labyrinth (Opera Restor’d at the Wigmore Hall)

BEST MALE SINGER IN RECITAL/CONCERT
2006-07 - Gerald Finley – ENO Gala Performance (English National Opera)
2005-06 – Sir Thomas Allen – Recital (Wigmore Hall)

BEST FEMALE SINGER IN RECITAL/CONCERT
2006-07 - Anne Mason - Mozart 250th Anniversary Celebration (Royal Opera)
2005-06 – Louise Winter – Gala for Jean (Wigmore Hall)

BEST MALE SINGER IN A CHORAL WORK
2005-06 – Iain Paton, tenor Carmina Burana (Raymond Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall)

BEST FEMALE SINGER IN A CHORAL WORK
2005-06 – Susan Gritton, soprano – A Sea Symphony (LSO at the Barbican)

BEST PROM
2006-07 - Prom 17: The Great Venetians
2005-06 – Prom 7: Nelsonmesse, Motet, Symphony

BEST BALLET
2005-06 – La fille de mal gardée

BEST EDUCATION EVENT
2005-06 – Alcina Study Day (ETO)

BEST RADIO BROADCAST
2006-07 - Owen Wingrave (Royal Opera Linbury Studio)
2005-06 – Fidelio (Metropolitan Opera)

BEST NEW CD
2005-06 – A Song for Anything - Gerald Finley

MOST MEMORABLE COSTUME
2006-07 - Orlin Anastassov – Méphistophéles Faust (ROH)
2005-06 – Marie Angel/Janis Kelly – various roles Fast Forward Figaro (Drill Hall)

BEST DEATH SCENE
2006-07 - Linda Richardson – Gilda Rigoletto (Opera North)
2005-06 – Felicity Palmer – Old Prioress The Carmelites (ENO)

BEST MALE BOTTOM
2006-07 - Iain Paton
2005-06 – Gerald Finley

BEST FEMALE BOTTOM
2006-07 - Eliana Pretorian
2005-06 – Amy Freston